Tuesday, November 20, 2012

".....Gaza again is a living hell, all of it on record for the world to see. The
death toll is climbing by the hour. The photos are everywhere but the New
York Times has only a paragraph on the fear Israeli children
experience from the loud noises and clamor. You have forgotten the other half of
humanity, Mr. Publisher. Not the other half, really; the other 9/10ths of the
world. When will you comment on the trauma the Gazan child experiences, and
repeatedly, with children across the world under the bombs of the United States
and Israel?

All the sounds and sights and smells of slaughter verify the damage and
danger of aerial assaults and targeted killings; Apartment buildings still
buzzing with human activity when missiles pierced through their ceilings offer
up their dead and wounded to the deafening skies. Progressive US President Barak
Obama and his allies applaud Israel’s masterful techniques of preventive war as
self-defense; its sophistication at using state of the art weaponry against
mosques, homes, markets and schools; re-emphasize at press conferences the right
of Israel to defend itself against the human cattle they have justly corralled
into densely packed camps to be bound and slaughtered or starved and transferred
elsewhere. All of it is happening again, today, before our very eyes; before the
universal documents proclaiming the rights of mankind and international
humanitarian law; before the leaders who have so eagerly abandoned due process
and civil liberties but fear the rising tide of rebellion in the Middle East and
elsewhere?How dare we pontificate on the atrocities of Damascus after
sponsoring such a Juggernaut for Jerusalem? For Gaza? What educated public can
still claim they didn’t know? How can anyone any longer pretend the earth was
not boiling beneath us like lava under an active volcano?"